What Happened?

[YungRasputin]

There are many "captive bred" BCs imported from range countries into the US each year (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Colombia). The hard part would be to figure out which wholesaler imported from which country.

Not sure you want to get involved with animals of that origin, though -- you'd need a good vet on your side.

well personally i prefer and have stuck with CBB specimens mainly because of the potential medical issues you’ve mentioned but also, i have heard from older breeders that getting imported pairs can be a bit of crap shoot insomuch as they might breed once in the first 6 months you get them and that clutch (or in this case litter tho the people i am thinking of were talking about retic imports) may be viable but past that it’s in the air so when i was piecing together my collection my main thing was finding different breeders for each specimen and also making sure they were CBB

the only species i think i would sway on that with would be Cuban boas just simply because they’re too amazing not to grab if seen (who wouldn’t want giant cave raptors) or Indian rocks (if they ever came back into the hobby) but realistically i am not looking to expand any time soon this thread is mainly just intellectual curiosity